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Newest studies

Every summary in our library, newest first, as a dated timeline.

What "newest" means here

The most recent study in this library is dated 2026-11-01 (Paths of Aging Minds: Health Journeys of Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment). This is our summary library, not a news wire — it is added to in batches, so the newest entry may not be the newest paper published anywhere.

Entries are sorted strictly by publication date, newest first. 26489 of the 27380 entries carry a full day-level date. 65 have no date recorded at all and are placed by publication year, at the start of that year; those are marked "no date recorded" below so you can see where the ordering is a best effort rather than a fact.

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Showing 16,701–16,725 of 27,380 studies, newest first · page 669 of 1096.

September 2015 20

  1. 2015-09-02

    Combining billing codes, clinical notes, and medications from electronic health records provides superior phenotyping performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

    Key finding: Multiple EHR components provide a more consistent and higher performance than a single one for the selected phenotypes. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2015-09-02

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus and biomarkers of neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology

    Key finding: T2DM may promote neurodegeneration independent of AD dementia diagnosis, and its effect may be driven by tau phosphorylation. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2015-09-01

    Mental illness, challenging behaviour, and psychotropic drug prescribing in people with intellectual disability: UK population based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety BMJ

    Key finding: 21% (7065) of the cohort had a record of mental illness at study entry, 25% (8300) had a record of challenging behaviour, and 49% (16,242) had a record of prescription of psychotropic drugs. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2015-09-01

    Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis Have Increased Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Mortality: A Population-Based Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Annals of internal medicine

    Key finding: Ankylosing spondylitis is associated with increased risk for vascular mortality. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2015-09-01

    The impact of neuroscience on society: cognitive enhancement in neuropsychiatric disorders and in healthy people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

    Key finding: An example of a novel form of cognitive enhancement using the technological advancement of a game on an iPad that also acts to increase motivation is presented. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  6. 2015-09-01

    Dietary Patterns and Cognitive Decline Among Chinese Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)

    Key finding: Our findings suggest that an adapted Mediterranean diet or a wheat-based, diverse diet with similar components may reduce the rate of cognitive decline in later life in the Chinese population. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  7. 2015-09-01

    Appoptosin-Mediated Caspase Cleavage of Tau Contributes to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Pathogenesis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neuron

    Key finding: Our findings reveal a novel role for appoptosin in neurological disorders with tau neuropathology, linking caspase-3-mediated tau cleavage to synaptic dysfunction and behavioral/motor defects.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  8. 2015-09-01

    Lack of genetic association between TREM2 and Alzheimer's disease in East Asian population: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

    Key finding: Twelve studies were considered for analysis. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  9. 2015-09-01

    Back to the future – feasibility of recruitment and retention to patient education and telephone follow-up after hip fracture: a pilot randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Health systems and care delivery Patient Preference and Adherence

    Key finding: Our pilot study results indicate that it is feasible to recruit, retain, and provide follow-up telephone coaching to older adults after hip fracture. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  10. 2015-09-01

    Association of Insulin Resistance With Cerebral Glucose Uptake in Late Middle-Aged Adults at Risk for Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Patients with AD and individuals at risk for AD show reduced glucose metabolism, as indexed by fludeoxyglucose F 18-labeled positron emission tomography (FDG-PET). +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  11. 2015-09-01

    Magnetic resonance imaging biomarkers for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: a machine learning approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Frontiers in neuroscience

    Key finding: Magnetic Resonance (MR)-related biomarkers have been recently identified by the use of machine learning methods for the in vivo differential diagnosis of AD. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  12. 2015-09-01

    Marked gender differences in progression of mild cognitive impairment over 8 years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)

    Key finding: Women with MCI have greater longitudinal rates of cognitive and functional progression than men. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  13. 2015-09-01

    Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: An Overview of Self-Report Measures Used Across 19 International Research Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD

    Key finding: Research increasingly suggests that subjective cognitive decline (SCD) in older adults, in the absence of objective cognitive dysfunction or depression, may be a harbinger of non-normative cognitive decline and eventual progression to dementia. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  14. 2015-09-01

    Modifiers of C9orf72 dipeptide repeat toxicity connect nucleocytoplasmic transport defects to FTD/ALS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Nature neuroscience

    Key finding: C9orf72 mutations are the most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  15. 2015-09-01

    Phase separation by low complexity domains promotes stress granule assembly and drives pathological fibrillization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Cell

    Key finding: We suggest that LCD-mediated LLPS contributes to the assembly of stress granules and their liquid properties and provides a mechanistic link between persistent stress granules and fibrillar protein pathology in disease.

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  16. 2015-09-01

    Cognitive Tests to Detect Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis JAMA internal medicine

    Key finding: Besides the MMSE, there are many other tests with comparable diagnostic performance for detecting dementia. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  17. 2015-09-01

    Regulation of Adult Neurogenesis and Plasticity by (Early) Stress, Glucocorticoids, and Inflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology

    Key finding: Exposure to stress is one of the best-known negative regulators of adult neurogenesis (AN). +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  18. 2015-09-01

    Effect of Dextromethorphan-Quinidine on Agitation in Patients With Alzheimer Disease Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments JAMA

    Key finding: With the sequential parallel comparison design, 152 patients received dextromethorphan-quinidine and 127 received placebo during the study. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  19. 2015-09-01

    APOE-by-sex interactions on brain structure and metabolism in healthy elderly controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Oncotarget

    Key finding: The impact of APOE4 on brain metabolism and structure is modified by sex. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  20. 2015-09-01

    Longitudinal Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Changes in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease During Middle Age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics JAMA neurology

    Key finding: Within-person changes in CSF biomarkers were also compared with changes in cortical PiB binding and progression to a CDR higher than 0 at follow-up. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

August 2015 5

  1. 2015-08-31

    Neural Plastic Effects of Cognitive Training on Aging Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Neural plasticity

    Key finding: Increasing research has evidenced that our brain retains a capacity to change in response to experience until late adulthood. +2 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  2. 2015-08-31

    η-Secretase processing of APP inhibits neuronal activity in the hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Nature

    Key finding: Two principal physiological pathways either prevent or promote amyloid-β generation from its precursor, β-amyloid precursor protein (APP), in a competitive manner. +3 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  3. 2015-08-31

    Dynamic reconfiguration of frontal brain networks during executive cognition in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Key finding: This reconfiguration, which characterizes "network flexibility," employs transient and heterogeneous connectivity between frontal systems, which we refer to as "integration." +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  4. 2015-08-28

    Episodic memory in normal aging and Alzheimer disease: Insights from imaging and behavioral studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Ageing research reviews

    Key finding: Such cognitive changes are associated with different structural and functional alterations in the human neural network that underpins episodic memory. +1 more finding

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

  5. 2015-08-28

    Cognitive Function in Individuals With Physical Frailty but Without Dementia or Cognitive Complaints: Results From the I-Lan Longitudinal Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

    Key finding: Even without subjective cognitive complaints, higher risk of cognitive impairment is presented in the prefrail and frail individuals. +4 more findings

    Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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